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Lowe Mbonda Silvanus

@lowesilvan

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I'm a Javascript/Typescript developer with DevOps experience. I use React daily, and value quality.

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What I'm looking for

Hello! I'm Lowe, I love to work on interesting products/projects, which have/will have a social impact. I am looking for a small to medium-sized company with fully remote roles, Where I'll Ideally work within the scope of IT platform, Could DevOps/SRE

Hello👋
Here's a bit about me:
I started off as a passionate gamer kid who wanted to create his own video game and which led me to study for a BSc in Computer Engineering and worked my way through to gaining valuable skills in Software Engineering.
I am a Software Engineer specializing in Frontend and Infrastructure/Full-stack Developer with Professional experience building websites, Mobile, and web applications. I have a passion for bringing beautiful user interfaces and user experiences to life, I currently specialize in the JavaScript/Typescript Ecosystem.
Core areas of competencies:
- Software Design and Architecture
- Software development best practices
- Good knowledge of REST Architectural patterns
- Experience in Test-Driven Development
- Component-based Architecture for user interfaces
- Infrastructure as code
- DevOps practitioner with experience setting up CICD pipelines.
Focused on being a valuable part of any team, I believe in team growth and continuous personal improvement. Feel free to get in touch.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Implementation Engineer

Current

Progressoft Corporation

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Implemented Terraform HCP and GitHub Actions to achieve 100% IaC reliability for GKE provisioning and introduced ArgoCD/Argo Rollouts GitOps workflows that produced zero deployment outages over 20 months while reducing incident MTTR by ~50%.

Terraform GitHub Actions GKE ArgoCD Argo OpenTelemetry SigNoz CI CD Kubernetes

Current

Full Stack Developer

Current

Camsol Technologies UG

Jul 2022 - Present (3 years 3 months)

I set up the CICD pipelines for the Nextjs Frontend and Java Springboot backend, using bitbucket-pipelines, Docker, and Hetzner Cloud.
Setup CICD for a React application using GitHub actions and AWS S3.
Integrated Facebook/Apple Authentication in a React Native application.
Led a team of 2 developers in developing a prototype E-commerce application.
Built dashboard components with NextJs/Ts

React DevOps GraphQL TypeScript Docker

DevOps Engineer

Camsol Technologies UG

Jul 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Built highly available Kubernetes environments on Hetzner using Terraform and shell scripting to scale users 5x, improved observability with Grafana, and containerized a monolith into microservices improving optimization speed by 94% and cutting page load times ~20%.

Kubernetes Hetzner Cloud Terraform Docker Shell Scripting Grafana CI CD CDN Monitoring

Volunteer DevOps Engineer

Ayaversity

Feb 2023 - May 2023 (3 months)

Introduced Docker containerization, Docker Swarm orchestration on bare metal, and GitHub Actions CI/CD, reducing release cycles from one week to three days for the EdTech Web3 project.

Docker Docker Swarm GitHub Actions CI CD Containerization Bare Metal Servers

Fullstack Engineer

Zotech Company Ltd

Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Created CI/CD pipelines with Slack integration, standardized branching and automated checks to boost team velocity ~28%, enforced API reliability with TypeScript+Axios, and implemented atomic React design for 100+ B2B users.

CI CD GitHub Bitbucket TypeScript React Axios Branching Strategies Frontend Development

Front End Developer

PaveWay Technologies Ltd

Aug 2021 - May 2022 (9 months)

Ensured technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and Translated designs and wireframes into high-quality, responsive user experiences that allowed cross-platform accessibility on any device, using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and ReactJs.
Developed and maintained ReactJs applications, using Redux for state management.
Built REST APIs with nodeJs, ExpressJs, and MongoDB following RESTful standards.

React JavaScript Redux REST Jest

Web Developer

United Nations ESCWA Technology Center

Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 (3 months)

Following modern design patterns, Developed scalable, responsive web application components using HTML, CSS, Vanilla Javascript, and Drupal 8, that would provide community support services to small businesses in the Middle East, working with a team of 2 other developers, I continuously deployed my progress using Git to Pantheon.io.
I maintained this Application.

Drupal JavaScript HTML5 CSS Web Design

Web Developer Intern

United Nations ESCWA Technology Center

Nov 2020 - Feb 2021 (3 months)

Developed a scalable Drupal 8 application with responsive HTML/CSS/JS components and resolved 10+ weekly production issues to improve reliability and support role creation initiatives in the Global South.